My Mission:

Change the World by Changing People.

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Hi, I’m Rob.

And that's really my mission, my why, my purpose in life. I want to change the world by helping people change themselves. Starting with myself. I try to do that through my writing and through the software projects that I work on. I hope you will find something on this site that makes you see things a little differently. And maybe that will inspire you to be a better version of yourself. Read more about me here.

Some Things I Write About Often

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I’m not talking about peanuts or stuff that comes out of your nose. We’re going with the not traditional definition here. Like the one above that came from Urban Dictionary. Goober is just the perfect term for when my 3-year-old stands on his chair in the middle of dinner and shakes his bum like Elvis […]

What a wonderfully expressive word. It makes me think of all the young people who get into trouble through sheer youthful exuberance. Picture The Little Rascals or the kids in The Sand Lot. I think my favorite example though would be the lost boys from Hook. Swinging around with cool names like Rufio and spouting […]

3.5 – Stars My book review policy I’ve always loved the imagination and the scope of this book. I think this is the second or third time I’ve read it. The Ringworld just sounds majestic. It does make me wish we got a little more description of the world itself though. Niven seems more interested […]

4 – Stars My book review policy Each book in this series takes a brand new character and throws them into a brand new situation that arises directly from the nature of this world that Butler has created. You know you have an interesting world when you call tell so many stories in it and […]

5 – Stars My book review policy I think I liked this book even more than the first in the series. We get a few characters back but this story is mostly told through the viewpoint of a new character who is the son of Lilith and Oankali. The transition is seamless. I read the […]

5 – Stars My book review policy There are a lot of books out there with an interesting premise. There are a lot of books out there with interesting characters. There are a lot of books out there with gripping writing that immediately pulls you into the story and never lets you go. This book […]